GoKawiilWordPress.com is enabling customers on its paid plans to tap an AI agent to perform tasks on their behalf. The website-building and hosting service said Friday that agents such as Claude and ChatGPT can now create blog posts directly on your website, reply to comments and more.
The news comes after WordPress.com introduced Model Context Protocol support last year, which allowed AI agents to read your website's content, analytics and settings, but not modify your website. With new write capabilities, you can ask your agent to approve pending comments, create a landing page or fix image alt text, among other requests.
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According to a WordPress.com blog post, your AI agent will ask for your explicit confirmation and describe its plans before making any changes to your website. Any new posts or pages an agent creates begin as drafts. Your agent can understand the "colors, fonts, spacing and block patterns" of your website's theme, leading to "outputs that inherit your site's design system," according to the blog post.
WordPress.com's cheapest monthly paid plan, Personal, starts at $9. There's a free version of WordPress.com, but upgrading to Personal is required for ad-free browsing, premium themes and increased storage. WordPress.com also launched an AI website builder last year.
The update reflects a broader shift as generative AI becomes more entwined with popular services and software. Recent examples include the deeper integration between Claude and Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, and the ability to access apps for Booking.com, Zillow and more directly within ChatGPT.
If you pay for WordPress.com, you can try the new features by enabling MCP on your account, selecting the capabilities you want to turn on or off and connecting to an MCP-enabled AI tool, according to the blog post.